MAKING TREATMENT DECISIONS
 

We recommend that all visitors to this webpage first read the following sections of the website for the Cancer Council NSW. The blue words are a hyper-link to the relevant section of the CCNSW website. Double-click on them to be taken to those webpages.

Decision-making steps 
Talking with your doctors
Talking with others
A second opinion
Taking part in a clinical trial

(1) Finding health professionals with an professed interest in brain tumours
(2) Health complaints commissioners

(1) Persons with a professed interest in brain tumour treatment.
 
BTAA is developing a register of Australasian professionals with a professed interested in brain tumour treatment.

This is a very difficult task because many of the oncologists, for example, do not specialise solely in brain tumours but work in other cancer fields and many of the neurosurgeons undertake other neurosurgery apart from craniotomies for brain tumours.

We are indebted to Tara Gent (Melbourne) for assembling much of this information. There are bound to be omissions and inaccuracies because the information is not set out in any one place. We have relied on publicly available information in the main. We have uploaded the information in an Excel spreadsheet and will update it regularly.
 
Professionals are requested to provide or update an entry in the register by consulting the listing here and forwarding the amendment/addition to secretary@btaa.org.au  

A list of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is available here.

We offer no rating as to who might have more experience or knowledge from among these specialists but we do encourage patients and caregivers to ask their initial specialist extensively about their interest and experience in the area that is relevant for your care. It is also important to remember that you have a right to a second opinion .

 
(2) Health complaints commissioners
 
Any complaints about the medical service you receive should be directed to your local health complaints commissioner.

Links to the websites for health care complaints commissioners in Australia and New Zealand are available here (have these on a child page):

• Australian Capital Territory
• New South Wales
• New Zealand
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia
•  

Click here to return to the main webpage for Brain Tumour Alliance Australia